A few months ago I talked to infochimps (I got their contact info thanks to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989180)

I asked for a copy of the social graph so I could build exactly the kind of service provided by trst.me. Joseph Kelly told me I was "on to something", but they never gave me a copy of the data.

I really hope they had every intention of releasing this service before my correspondence with them. But after seeing this, the tin foil hatter in me can't help but get the nagging sensation that maybe I shouldn't have made public my intention and just gone ahead with my own crawl of twitter. Oh well, there goes my research project.